Some of the most remarkable adaptations in plants involve edaphic (soil-related) challenges. We are therefore working on the genomics of diverse metal, drought, and serpentine-tolerant plants. Our results detail broadly orchestrated, highly polygenic evolutionary responses, as well as striking instances of repeated evolution and gene flow between species. Together, these results point to a shared evolutionary logic across the plant kingdom.
Representative works:
-Konečná V, Bray S, Vlček J, Bohutínská M, Požárová D, Choudhury R, Bollmann A, Flis P, Salt D, Parisod C, *Yant L, *Kolář F Serpentine adaptation in autopolyploid Arabidopsis arenosa is dominated by repeated recruitment of shared alleles. Nature Communications
-Busoms S, Terés J, Yant L, Poschenrieder C, Salt D Adaptation to coastal soils through pleiotropic boosting of ion and stress hormone levels in wild Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist
-Busoms S, Paajanen P, Marburger S, Bray S, Huang X, Poschenrieder C, *Yant L, and *Salt D Ecological and population genomics reveals fluctuating selection on migrant adaptive sodium transporter alleles in coastal Arabidopsis thaliana. PNAS (*co-corresponding)
-Arnold B, DaCosta J, Lahner B, Weisman C, Hollister JD, Salt DE, Bomblies K, Yant L Borrowed genes and convergence: serpentine adaptation in the face of inter- and intraspecific gene flow PNAS
-Konečná V, *Yant L, *Kolář F The evolutionary genomics of serpentine adaptation Frontiers in Plant Science
-Preite V, Sailer C, Syllwasschy L, Bray S, Krämer U, Yant L Convergent evolution in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis arenosa on calamine metalliferous soils. Phil Trans Roy. Soc. B